Some facilities are on the WWW, but only rwp, hrs, melw2, and tpl can access them, and even they need their PIN. The other facilities can be used from the command line, but it may be
easier to do the followingSome of the documents below are User Manuals for the Teaching Office. There are also Technical Documents for programmers. These give background information and describe some programs that aren't available from the menus shown in the General Facilities section.
Some facilities are on the WWW, but only rwp, hrs, melw2, and tpl can access them, and even they need their PIN. The other facilities can be used from the command line, but it may be
easier to do the following
This will display the menu of buttons to the right. Some of the buttons display documentation, others run programs or show new menus.
The "Survey Testing and Processing" button lets you try out the surveys,
save the results and process them to check the graphs. Pressing the button
makes the menu on the right appear.
The 'Teaching System' is a bunch of machines (gate, etc). To run programs on the Teaching System you need to log into it first. You can do this by sitting at a DPO machine or by running Xwin32 on your Windows machine.
The easiest way to copy files between a CUED Windows machine and the Teaching system is to follow the instructions on the Home Folder access so that your Teaching system folder appears as a folder on your desktop. Alternatively you can mail the file to yourself.
To run a program, click on the icon or click on the 'Terminal Window' icon to start a new window, then type the program name on the command line.
If the following 2 pages are used to switch between years it's best to restart the browser before testing another facility.
April 2012 (Tim Love) - Config checkers for lab/markup booking added.
February 2012 (Tim Love) - Sustainable engineering survey added.
September 2011 (Tim Love) -
- Project selection webpage and project processing webpages updated
- ~teachoff/IIAProjectUtilities/datamaker updated (for 5-rank IIAprojects)
- ~teachoff/bin/wwwgen updated (time-sensitive surveys, more IIA files produced, etc)
- New Fast Feedback programs installed.~teachoff/bin/wwwphpmaker updated
- A survey archiver is ready (run it once at the end of the academic year). Programs to access the archives are - archive access 1A, archive access 1B and archive access 2A.
September 2011 (Tim Love) -
- IIAProjects - a 1-5 ranking version drafted at IIAprojects5ranks. The pre-check of student replies has been updated as well as much of the processing and evaluation routines in http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/teaching/apps/IIAprojectsprocessing5ranks/, but nothing's been seriously tested.
- Surveys - http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/teaching/apps/survey2011 is a re-draft of 1A, 1B and 2A surveys with tabs; content whose visibility is time-sensitive (future lectures don't appear, and (for 1A/1B) present/past lectures are shown in reverse time order); and places where more free-text entry fields could be added. surveypopup shows how FFF and text feedback might be added to lectures.
Some configuration file changes are required: "Coursework", "Lecture" and "PaperTitle" lines have an extra field at the end which can be one of - Mich Lent Easter. See the examples in ~tpl/SRC/wwwgen/. That folder also has the source code for the new survey-creator.- Survey processing - process survey replies online, producing web graphics for the results, and showing the free-text comments
- FFF - http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/php/FFF.php is the start of a redraft (which won't work with touchpads)
- FFF - a web-based back-end called toffee is partly written and is being tested.
June 2011 (Tim Love) - IIAProjects' csvmaker fixed
November 2010 (Tim Love) - Integrated Electrical Project Survey added, and ajw36 year changer created.
October 2009 (Tim Love) - FFF now support MET1 students. The year-changer programs have been changed to include a MET option.
August 2009 (Tim Love) - All the programs are now in http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/teaching/apps/. Most have been updated to use the new house style.
March 2008 (Tim Love) - Grrr. The mechanism that lets selected users become teachoff on the central system isn't as easy as before. I can get in using
slogin -l teachoff concordebut only after a once-only stage documented on http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/app/kwiki/index.cgi?SshTrustDecember 2007 (Tim Love) - for the IIA Projects everything except the allocation itself (which I usually do anyway) can be now done on the WWW. The final lists are web pages too, though it remains to be seen whether they'll print out well.
March 2007 (Tim Love) - The Teaching Office utilities that run on the Hewlett-Packard machines are being converted so that they either run on the WWW, or they run on Linux machines. Here's the current status
- Fast-feedback - programs, source code and documentation are all in the Teaching Office area of the disc and have been modified to work in the 2006-7 context. The resulting program seems to be working ok.
- Survey - the program-creator (that produces the survey program from the config files) is converted and is in the Teaching Office area of the disc. The resulting program seems to be working ok. The post-processing seems ok on the Linux Servers and gate but not on the DPO terminals (the lynx program is missing)
- start teaching_office should work.
- March 2007: A "Best Lecturer" voting program (draft) is installed
I think all the programs have been moved into teachoff folders from tpl or system folders. For example, /users0/staff/teachoff/IIAProjectUtilities now contains all the programs used by the IIAProject post-processing menu.